LETTER: Clinic needn't have closed

In regard to the editorial in Sunday’s Standard-Times, I find it very disturbing that Planned Parenthood is trying to make a case saying that they are for women’s health care. If they were truly for women’s health care and not just taking the life of the unborn, then I do not understand why they closed their doors.

What Texas legislators did was to try to make Planned Parenthood facilities a safer place for women and if Planned Parenthood really cared they should be celebrating the change in the laws instead of cursing them. Since Planned Parenthood claims that only 3 percent of its services are abortions without the use of government money, then the change in the laws should have only minor effects on it.

I think this only brings out Planned Parenthood’s true colors that it is not there for health care but to destroy the life of the unborn as it rakes in dollars with little concern for the mothers.

The facility in Midland was found to cover up statutory rape and failed to report it as required by law. How safe are these centers?

I cannot understand how a woman can destroy her own child but can’t wave good-bye to it. Every day, all over the country, you can open any newspaper’s classified ads and find couples begging to adopt a child because too many children are being aborted. An unexpected pregnancy doesn’t have to end with an unwanted child as many couples wait to adopt these children.

I also find it arrogant for the newspaper to determine who would and who would not make good mothers. I have known many good mothers who, with little finances, physical disabilities and lack of family support have raised children that any mother would be proud of.

Where do we draw the line? How much money or what kind of degree do you think is needed to be a good parent?